FWIW I teach upper level courses. I see LLMs as almost sufficiently advanced compilers. You could say the same thing about gcc or even standard libraries. "Why

FWIW I teach upper level courses. I see LLMs as almost sufficiently advanced compilers. You could say the same thing about gcc or even standard libraries. "Why back in my day we wrote our own hash maps while walking uphill both ways! Kids these days just import a lib and they don't learn anything!" They are still learning, just at a higher level of abstraction.